Conscientious Caviar

Feel good about this luxury food

If the recent ban on Caspian Sea Beluga caviar, due to pollution and overfishing, dampened your holiday spirits, take heart.

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Sustainable and sensual alternatives are available closer to home. Sterling Caviar, from white sturgeon farmed in northern
California, is an admirable stand-in for its Russian and Iranian cousins. Along with other American caviars, including
paddlefish, salmon and trout, it gets a green light from environmentalists—and a thumbs-up from our staff kitchen.